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After more than a year of providing robust, beautiful interface to manage and share your expenses, we have decided it is now time to say good bye to the service. We would be shutting down our servers on July 2nd. We had started the project as a way to have an application to manage our […]

Managing your tweets and tweet lists If you have read our previous blog post we had proudly announced our new tool this time around to manage your tweets. To add more context on why would you might need such a tool: There is too much information on Twitter Tweets are not organized You can create lists on […]

Why? Over the years we have been passionate about twitter platform and the potential it has. Although as primary developer I don’t tweet much bit still spend lot of time reading and following people across locations, political opinions, technologies etc. There are times when you are traveling, are at work when you stumble upon a […]

With Storm, tables can be mapped to entities with @Table annotation. It works similar to most of the ORM solutions with few exceptions. Example Mapping: @Table(name = “DEMO_ENTITY”, version = 2) class Entity { @PrimaryKey @Column(name=”ID”, type = FieldType.INTEGER) private int id; } Every table must have a @PrimaryKey annotation, or the meta data reading […]

Just like any other ORM solution available, Storm has the capability of generating SQL queries for you; also managing table relations. Annotations are used by Storm to read the Meta data associated. There are only four major annotations that you need to be aware of: @Database This annotation provides the details of the database tables and […]

Adding to Project To add storm to your Android project, please use below for Gradle in your project specific Gradle file. This would add Cubestack bitray Mave repository to your project maven { url “http://dl.bintray.com/cubestack/maven” } Once Maven repository is added, you may import Storm to your project with current version (1.0g) or any other […]

What is it? A small, FAST and easy to use Java ORM solution for Android SQLite database. Currently being used across projects from Enterprise to Open Source. The framework is made with intention to not only be easy to setup and use but to be able to appreciate even after using for moths (Long term Goal) […]

Annotations are very helpful tool while programming in Java. It is a alternative to the traditional XML based configurations. Spring has picked it up early and I must admit quite beautifully. In case you are working on something and want to use annotations for your code, here is a small guide; it will definatly make […]

Here, we would be extending / simplifying our server that we had made in our last post here. Objectives – We had a static URL handler which was invoked when URL pattern had /static/. It made the design very specific and not generic. Need to make sure that in case there is no URL pattern […]

Off late I have seen many people struggling with creating a static Node server, also there have been questions like “How to have static & Dynamic files served by Node”. So here I have a fully functional server that can serve both static as well as dynamic files. Off course there is no need as […]